Principal Data Engineer

Role expectation: This position is intended for a senior hands-on technologist who remains deeply involved in architecture engineering coding troubleshooting and delivery execution. The role provides technical leadership and influence across teams but does not include direct people management responsibilities.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines:

• Acts as the technical authority for a modernization-focused product team supporting CNAs reinsurance accounting regulatory reporting and financial data platforms across the full solution stack including applications integrations data cloud and architecture.

• Owns technical direction and key engineering decisions for business-critical platforms including architecture patterns solution design integration approach data strategy cloud services engineering standards and technical debt reduction priorities.

• Leads and directly contributes to hands-on design coding automation testing troubleshooting implementation and continuous improvement of scalable secure reliable and maintainable solutions.

• Defines and advances modernization roadmaps that simplify legacy ecosystems improve data quality and reporting accuracy strengthen resiliency and enable long-term agility for business and regulatory needs.

• Partners with business and technology leaders to translate strategic goals financial controls compliance needs and operational priorities into practical technical solutions and delivery plans.

• Provides architecture guidance mentoring delivery governance and technical influence for internal external and offshore resources while remaining an individual contributor without direct people management responsibility.

• Maintains accountability for engineering quality secure delivery practices release readiness production stability and alignment with enterprise architecture cloud data and security standards.

May perform additional duties as assigned.

Reporting Relationship

Typically Director or above

Skills Knowledge & Abilities

• Expertise in engineering enterprise architecture solution design and technical leadership for modernization-focused product teams.

• Strong understanding of reinsurance accounting regulatory reporting financial controls reconciliation premium and loss transaction data and insurance business processes.

• Deep knowledge of the full solution stack including application architecture systems integration data modeling cloud platforms databases APIs ETL/ELT reporting data flows and operational resiliency.

• Ability to make and communicate technical decisions set engineering standards guide architecture direction influence and align with data strategy and prioritize technical debt reduction.

• Hands-on proficiency with enterprise application development modern engineering practices automation secure software delivery Agile delivery unit testing release readiness and production support.

• Experience with cloud and data services such as Google Cloud Platform BigQuery Cloud Storage Dataflow Dataproc Pub/Sub Cloud Composer or comparable enterprise data platforms.

• Ability to influence senior business and technology stakeholders mentor engineers and guide internal external and offshore teams through technical expertise rather than direct people management.

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree with Masters preferred in Computer Science Information Technology related discipline or equivalent work experience.

• Typically 10 years of experience in application engineering.

• 7 years of coding proficiency in multiple programming languages preferred.

• Experience advancing the use of Agile methods.

• Previous technical or project leadership experience required; direct people management experience is not required.

• Applicable certifications preferred including cloud application development architecture data engineering or related enterprise technology certifications.

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